A group of clever thinkers used de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats as we found out about animals.
The White Hat is Information.
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Check out these links to find out more about how scientists group living things in the animal kingdom.
http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/animal_classes.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya-7JsIna2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms6yqANNzR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqxomJIBGcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZCSoG8bvY

The Red Hat is Feelings.
There are lots of funny sayings about animals. We talked about what these mean and how we felt about them.
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The Yellow Hat is Strengths.
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It was hard to choose the most important animals in the world. We wondered if we might choose one animal from each class. But it was so tricky!
We had humans, cows, dogs and sheep from the mammals.
We had bees and flies from arthropods.
We had chickens, kiwis, tui and kakapo from birds.
We had blue cod from fish.
We had frogs from amphibians.
W had tuataras from reptiles.
Check out this link to find out more about animals.
http://a-z-animals.com/animals/

The Black Hat is Judgements.
We talked about animals that are endangered and animals that are extinct.
http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/
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The Green Hat is Creative New Ideas.
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Here are the instructions if you’d like to make a flutterfly. Or you might like to make a Whirli-bird.



The Blue Hat is Thinking about Thinking.
The easy name is steps and the fancy name is metacognition.
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